St Mary’s are offering Coaching to help our members increase their strengths and confidence. To help people move forward, feel empowered and in control of their lives. Coaching is basically a conversation with a purpose where you chat about how to reach your goals.

People enlist the services of a coach because they want to improve their situations and achieve goals. Olympians Tom Daley and Laura Kenny all have coaches, as do sports teams, and increasingly people in business.

Coaching is often about helping people to realise their strengths and do more with them. Coaching is a form of learning, where a person - a coach - supports someone else – a coachee - to decide the goals they want to achieve and supports them to achieve them. Common goals might be gaining confidence in your abilities, being more organised or assertive, managing money better, steps towards finding work or simply believing in yourself.